Well, yeah, "400 billion systems" is a lot more attention grabbing than "a few thousand developed core systems".
Not really, anyone willing to play a space RPG is going to instantly know 400 billion systems is bullshit. "Thousands of hand-crafted systems" would have been a much better line.
Are advertisements now better sources of information than FAQs?
No, but I don't recall claiming otherwise.
It is better to have very interesting primary systems than lots of boring empty ones.
Why not both?
It is never a good thing to have lots and lots of something worthless, even if it is only to augment base features.
Maybe one day you'll actually read my posts instead of asking the same question over and over again. I honestly don't know why you drag things on like this. You asked the same thing over and over again in the Morrowind thread, too. Do you do it because you have nothing more interesting to discuss? Really, tell me why.
You can rotate your ship to fire at opponents, regardless of your direction of thrust. You just have to turn flight assist off.
Except there is an artificial yaw limitation you can't turn off. Star Citizen calls this "G-Safe" and E:D calls it "go fuck yourself."